Japan’s largest oil company Eneos (formerly Nippon Oil), is hooking on to the charging infrastructure business. They just acquired 4,600 AC chargers from electronics company NEC to operate at supermarkets, shopping malls and other facilities in Japan. Eneos plans to take over the remaining 1,500 of the 6,100 chargers operated by NEC in the next […] More…

Jaguar driver Mitch Evans has won the first Formula E race in Jakarta, Indonesia. Evans beat Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah) and Edoardo Mortara (ROKiT Venturi Racing) for second and third place to take his third win of the season in Jakarta. In qualifying, DS driver Vergne had still prevailed over his team-mate Antonio Felix da […] More…

Ford wants to begin offering its electric cars exclusively through direct sales at fixed prices. Ford CEO Jim Farley has now announced this, at least for the North American market. However, it is still unclear when this will be implemented and whether the new sales system could also be extended to other markets. Farley announced […] More…

Hyundai will soon cease production of the Ioniq. According to the Korean carmaker, production of the model, which is available as a BEV, PHEV and HEV, will end at the Ulsan plant in July. The model was launched in 2016 and since then the electrified sedan has fully met the company’s business expectations, according to […] More…

Stellantis subsidiary Fiat has presented the new generation of the Doblo and E-Doblo. The passenger car version will be launched exclusively with a purely electric drive, while the van version will be available as either a combustion engine or an electric model. The E-Doblo is powered by a combination of a 100-kW electric motor and […] More…

In a bid to make electric vehicle charging more accessible in Vancouver, city council has unanimously approved a motion that requires all gas stations and parking lots with more than 60 stalls to have EV charging onsite or pay an annual license fee of $10,000 starting in 2025. The new regulation was initially introduced in […] More…

Fastned has opened its first ultra-rapid EV charging location in London. Based in the London Borough of Greenwich the station provides six bays with a total of 300kW of renewable energy. The launch is Fastned’s 11th in the UK and its first in London, coming just weeks after Fastned opened the biggest ultra-rapid charging station […] More…

Fastned has opened its first ultra-rapid EV charging location in London. Based in the London Borough of Greenwich the station provides six bays with a total of 300kW of renewable energy. The launch is Fastned’s 11th in the UK and its first in London, coming just weeks after Fastned opened the biggest ultra-rapid charging station […] More…

Toyota has developed the O-Uchi Kyuden System, a battery system for residential use based on electrified vehicle battery technology. The system features bidirectional vehicle-to-home capabilities. The home battery system is meant for everyday use, providing off-peak electricity, residential solar power photovoltaic system support, and EV charging. EVs capable of bidirectional power can be used by […] More…

Mercedes-Benz USA has announced pricing and packaging structures for the all-electric EQB SUV. The fully electric compact SUV should arrive in US dealerships by summer 2022. For the USA, Mercedes-Benz has revealed that the 2022 EQB 300 4MATIC will start from $54,500 and the EQB 350 4MATIC is priced from $58,050. The Mercedes EQB went […] More…

Elon Musk has imposed a worldwide hiring freeze at Tesla and has plans to lay off ten per cent of the workforce because he has “a very bad feeling” about the economy. He has already confirmed the plans to Reuters. At the end of 2021, Tesla was employing around 100,000 people worldwide, meaning that 10,000 […] More…

Elon Musk has imposed a worldwide hiring freeze at Tesla and has plans to lay off ten per cent of the workforce because he has “a very bad feeling” about the economy. He has already confirmed the plans to Reuters. At the end of 2021, Tesla was employing around 100,000 people worldwide, meaning that 10,000 […] More…

The Finnish retail group Kesko wants to nearly double its charging network for electric cars to a total of about 200 locations this year. The charging network, operated by the offshoot K-Auto under the label K-Charging, currently comprises 107 locations throughout Finland. These have a total of 332 AC charging points and 149 fast and […] More…

Pure Battery Technologies (PBT), an Australian specialist in cathode materials for use in electric car batteries, has received an investment from WIT InnoEnergy. The money will be used to finance the establishment of industrial mass production in Germany. PBT’s first commercial plant in Hagen has already started operations. There, 10,000 tonnes of precursor cathode material […] More…

Stellantis has entered into a binding offtake agreement for lithium hydroxide with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR). The battery-grade material mined by CTR in California will be used in electric cars manufactured in North America. CTR will supply Stellantis with up to 25,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide per year during the ten-year contract period, according to […] More…

Polestar is launching a special limited edition model of the Polestar 2. The Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 includes mechanical as well as design modifications to differentiate it from the standard Polestar 2 models. The powertrain is the same as the Polestar 2 with Performance Package: the two electric motors and 78 kWh battery achieve […] More…

At the end of this year, the Volkswagen Group’s planning round is expected to make the final decision on two additional purely electric Audi models at the Neckarsulm site. Two saloons are currently under consideration. According to information from the Heilbronner Stimme, these will be the electric successor to the top model A8 and a […] More…

Ford has announced an investment of 3.7 billion dollars in its production in the US states of Michigan, Ohio and Missouri. With the equivalent of 3.4 billion euros, the production of electric cars is to be strengthened and 6,200 new jobs created. According to Ford, 1.5 billion dollars (1.4 billion euros) alone are to flow […] More…

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started series production of the all-electric ID. Buzz at the main plant in Hanover. This year, up to 15,000 units of the ID. Buzz Pro and ID. Buzz Cargo will be produced. After the ramp-up, up to 130,000 vehicles per year can be produced in Hanover in the future, according to […] More…

Lexus has unveiled the fifth generation RX SUV series, which comes as a plug-in hybrid for the first time next to another two hybrids. However, Lexus expects the PHEV to become the best-selling RX model in Western and Central Europe. The new Lexus PHEV is labelled RX 450h+ and has 225 kW of system power […] More…